: About Me

I've always enjoyed reading,my whole family does. The bigest fights my brothers and I had as children were usually about who was next in line to read a certain book. So it was a natural progression from there to writing. I've been writing poetry since I was 13 and won a few prizes while still in school but mostly I've kept them to myself, diaries, journals,short stories etc. I love languages and still enjoy deepening my knowledge of the French language after 12 years in Paris. For that matter I enjoy deepening my knowledge of English and Irish too.

My other great passion is photograpy which I studied in University. I mostly take landscapes, nature details and portraits.

My passion is ...

books, photography, languages.

I know too much about ...

fantasy novels and The Princess Bride(film)

My parents always told me ...

to get up earlier!

My childhood ambition ...

go to Australia

My favorite memory ...

many many conversations with my substitute grandfather

Why I write ...

to order my thoughts.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

dragons, friends, country

My first job ...

nanny

My best moment ...

reading the letter that told me I had been given a place in the University I wanted...2500 people applied for 20 places! And everybody said I'd never get in.

My inspiration ...

Ashlinn, the most wonderful 10 year old in the world(as she was at 9 and 8 and 7 and...)

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Birds

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Wild-Life At the canal I saw a swan Waddle out of the water And attack his reflection In a window. Afterwards he Retreated to the water And hid his embarrassment In a clump of weeds. His mate kept Her distance Until he had calmed down. I think she realised That he hadn't won

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